Cloud Ship

Hearing Wang Hui's words, the clan leader Liang Xuelin did not hurry. He nodded and sighed. "Speaking of which, our Liang Family has wronged you and your mother, making you suffer so many grievances all these years."

Wang Hui comforted him, saying, "Second Uncle, why say such a thing? The Liang Family has already taken great care of my mother and me over the years."

"Putting everything else aside, the reason I, your nephew, was able to cultivate to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining so quickly was all because of the Liang Family's support."

As he spoke, he turned the topic back again. "Speaking of which, though this name card is hard to obtain, I do still have some connections. It's just..."

He did not continue, but the clan leader Liang Xuelin heard the song and understood the refined meaning. He immediately said, "If there are any difficulties, just say them plainly."

"It may require some Spirit Stones to smooth things over." Wang Hui seemed somewhat embarrassed as he spoke.

The clan leader Liang Xuelin, however, seemed to have expected this long ago and showed no surprise at all. "Will five hundred be enough?"

"It might... still be a little short." Wang Hui seemed even more embarrassed.

This time, Liang Xuelin could not help frowning slightly, but he still did not hesitate. "Then one thousand!"

"Enough! Enough." Wang Hui nodded at once.

The clan leader Liang Xuelin nodded, took a Storage Talisman from his sleeve, and handed it over. Clearly, he had also prepared it in advance.

A Storage Talisman was a special type of talisman that could store a large quantity of items inside it, equivalent to a simple Storage Bag.

However, compared with a Storage Bag, a Storage Talisman had many flaws. For example, though it could store a large quantity of items, it was difficult for it to reduce those items' weight. Secondly, a Storage Talisman had a limit on the number of times it could be used. Depending on the types and quantities of items stored, it would usually be ruined after three to five uses.

The only place where a Storage Talisman was better than a Storage Bag was that it was easy to make and cheap.

The Liang Family was only an unranked Humble Gate. The entire clan had just one Storage Bag, and it was kept in the clan's forbidden ground, storing some important resources and treasures. It would never be brought out.

Wang Hui accepted the Storage Talisman and immediately declared that before nightfall, he would absolutely be able to deliver the name card.

Liang Zhaohuang and the other man could only continue waiting in the teahouse.

Fortunately, before sunset, Wang Hui finally delivered a Wang Family Name Card.

With the name card in hand, Liang Zhaohuang and the other man did not return to the Liang Family. They rested for the night in the commandery city, then set out directly for the Yang Province provincial capital the next day, preparing to take a Cloud Ship to Ning Province.

The Liang Family's affairs had long since been entrusted by the clan leader Liang Xuelin to Liang Zhaojun to handle. This trip to Ning Province to retrieve the Foundation Establishment Five Elements Cultivation Method would be undertaken by Liang Zhaohuang and the clan leader Liang Xuelin alone.

The Yang Province provincial capital was more than ten thousand li from Luyang Commandery's commandery city. Along the way, they would cross barren mountains and wild ridges, rivers and waterways, with hidden dangers lying in wait.

To guard against accidents, Liang Zhaohuang and his companion relied on the Wang Family's name card to join a merchant caravan and travel together.

They passed through commanderies and counties along the way, taking over twenty days before finally reaching the Yang Province provincial capital.

The Yang Province provincial capital was several dozen times larger than Luyang Commandery's commandery city. Its population was flourishing, the Human Way prosperous, and its spiritual energy was even gentler and denser, making it especially suitable for human cultivators to cultivate.

Only, living in such a great city was even less easy.

Liang Zhaohuang and his companion found an inn in the city, consuming twenty low-grade Spirit Stones each day.

Fortunately, before coming, they had already calculated the timing. The next interprovince Cloud Ship would arrive at Yang Province City in two days and stay in Yang Province City for five days.

Within the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, the one primarily operating interprovince Cloud Ship services was the second-rank aristocratic family of Qing Province, the Changfeng Liu Clan.

Of the Great Jin's nineteen provinces, aside from Si Province, where the Heavenly Capital was located, and the five surrounding provinces, where there were certain restrictions, the Cloud Ships of the Changfeng Liu Clan could basically travel through the other thirteen provinces.

The Liu Clan's Cloud Ships crossed the lands of thirteen provinces, transporting all kinds of goods while also running passenger services. Every year, one could say they earned pots full and bowls full.

Two days later, the Cloud Ship arrived at Yang Province City, but it did not enter the city. It landed at Ganquan Mountain outside the city.

The Cloud Ship would stay here for five days. Some of the goods on the Cloud Ship would be unloaded here, and they would also purchase some specialty goods from Yang Province City to load onto the Cloud Ship and sell in other provinces.

There were also some passengers bound for Yang Province who disembarked here, while Yang Province likewise had passengers who needed to buy tickets here and board the Cloud Ship to travel to other provinces.

Liang Zhaohuang and his companion left Yang Province City and hurried toward Ganquan Mountain, where the Cloud Ship was located. Along the road, the crowds they saw were like a tide.

In the sky and on the ground, merchant caravans headed one after another toward the Cloud Ship, transporting out large quantities of goods to rush off in all directions. Likewise, even more merchant caravans were transporting all kinds of goods toward the Cloud Ship, where merchant caravans traveling with the ship would purchase these goods in great quantities.

Liang Zhaohuang saw that the merchant caravan they had traveled with before was also among them. The goods they transported were mainly various kinds of Spirit Rice.

Among the Great Jin's nineteen provinces, Yang Province could also be considered a land of fish and rice, rich in all kinds of Spirit Rice. Once loaded onto the Cloud Ship and sold to the border provinces, the price of this Spirit Rice could rise by several times over.

The closer they drew to Ganquan Mountain, the more the surrounding crowds surged.

Liang Zhaohuang even had the illusion that he had returned to his previous life, to a train station during the Spring Festival travel rush.

But when he drew near to Ganquan Mountain and saw the Cloud Ship parked on the mountaintop, all his attention was immediately drawn to that Cloud Ship.

Liang Zhaohuang had lived through two lives and could be considered to have seen something of the world.

In his previous life, he also had some understanding of airplanes, giant ships, and even aircraft carriers. The longest were only a little over a hundred zhang, and their width and height were only several dozen zhang.

But now, compared with this Cloud Ship parked on Ganquan Mountain, they were simply like little earthen mounds at the foot of a mountain.

As Liang Zhaohuang looked now, the Cloud Ship resting atop the mountain was absolutely over a thousand zhang in length, and its width and height were absolutely several hundred zhang as well. Though it was called a Cloud Ship, it looked more like a floating island.

There were even pavilions and towers built on the Cloud Ship, with carriages and horses flowing like water and dragons.

In this life, Liang Zhaohuang had mainly been active in Ludong County and the villages and towns under the county. Though there were cultivation arts, what he had seen more of was still the "backwardness" of feudal antiquity.

Now, suddenly seeing such a colossal thing, and the "technology" contained within it even surpassing the "science and technology" of his previous life, Liang Zhaohuang was only then abruptly startled awake: this cultivation world was not simple.

That faint thread of disdain that had always lingered in his heart vanished in an instant.

The clan leader Liang Xuelin also seemed stunned by this enormous Cloud Ship, but after all, he had cultivated for many years and had some experience. He quickly reacted, bringing Liang Zhaohuang up Ganquan Mountain to find the Cloud Ship's "ticket office." After showing the Wang Family Name Card, they finally managed, with great difficulty, to buy two tickets.

From Yang Province to Ning Province, one ticket cost two thousand five hundred low-grade Spirit Stones. Two tickets came to five thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, and that was still for the lowest level, the D-grade Area, among the Cloud Ship's four passenger sections of A, B, C, and D.

For this journey, the various expenses would nearly spend away a small half of the Spirit Stones that the Liang Family had saved up over the years.

If this trip to Ning Province could not smoothly obtain the Foundation Establishment Five Elements Cultivation Method, then putting aside whether they could survive the "calamity of clan extermination" three years later, just the Spirit Stones spent on this trip would force the Liang Family to tighten their belts and live frugally for several years.

After buying the Cloud Ship tickets, in order to save Spirit Stones, the two did not return to Yang Province City. They boarded the Cloud Ship directly, rested on the Cloud Ship, and waited for departure.

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